Month: September 2019

Cochise led an Apache uprising against the United States government in Arizona territory in 1861 and kept fighting for 11 more years.

Source: Cochise: The Legendary Apache Leader Who Fought For His Tribe’s Freedom

As we write this post, in various regions of the world women’s NGOs are assembling to prepare for next year’s UN Commission On The Status Of Women which marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995). Contained within that declaration the following is urged of governments to: “Take all appropriate measures to eliminate harmful, medically unnecessary or coercive medical interventions…” and that “Acts of violence against women also include forced sterilization and forced abortion, coercive/forced use of contraceptives…” (section D, paragraph 115).

Source: UN Women Staying Silent As China Forcibly Sterilizes Uyghur Women In Detention Centers | TIBET, ACTIVISM AND INFORMATION

When they hear us. This time, Columbia University was forced to see and hear members of the distinguished Black Law Student Association as these future legal lions roared across this prestigious, picturesque Ivy League institution and called for the resignation of Elizabeth Lederer, a lead prosecutor in the Central Park Five case and a lecturer on their campus. Lederer quietly resigned on the afternoon of Wednesday, June 12, 2019. It comes seven years after the same organization demanded that she resign following the airing of the 2012 documentary “The Central Park Five.” They didn’t see us then. But they see us now.

Source: Black Columbia law students force Central Park 5 prosecutor to resign – Rolling Out

Across the country today, children left their classes to protest against climate change. This is my message to them.

Source: My generation trashed the planet. So I salute the children striking back. – Sustainable Human

Biological fallacies were used to justify slavery. Why can’t doctors let them go?

A 95-year-old man from New Zealand took four buses to join a local march against racism to show his support for the Muslim community in the wake of a terror attack targeting mosques in Christchurch that left 50 people dead.

Source: 95-year-old man catches four buses to join march against racism | TheHill

A man in Alabama just had his sentence changed so that he’ll be getting out of prison in the next few days.

His crime: Stealing $50.75 from a bakery 36 years ago.

Source: Man who spent 36 years in prison for stealing $50 from a bakery is now set to be freed – ABC News